[Sailor Moon Crystal] Black Moon Arc Season 2

Sailor Moon Crystal Act 14 is the start of the series’s second arc: Black Moon. This is equivalent to the 90s anime’s second season: Sailor Moon R. The Doom Tree Arc featuring the two aliens Al and En did not exist in the manga (it is exclusive to the 90s anime storyline) so it will be skipped in Sailor Moon Crystal. Following closely to its manga source, it will introduce Chibiusa as Sailor Chibi Moon and Sailor Pluto, the Guardian of Time!

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You can watch Sailor Moon Crystal online for free and legally here:Crunchyroll – available in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Latin America (Central & South America including Mexico)Hulu/NeonAlley– available for US residentsAnimeLab – available in Australia & New ZealandNicoNico – available worldwide (Subtitled in 12 different languages with the original Japanese audio)

Just watched Act 21 Complication – NEMESIS last night.. and boy is it AMAZING!!! Really loving the Black Moon Arc so far and this episode in particular really captivated me. I absolutely LOVE this version of Chibiusa :3 She’s been the most adorable character, and I feel so sad for her : < Poor girl..especially after this episode where it shows her backstory. I also loved the scene how Sailor Pluto and Chibiusa met. It's too adorable.
The art and animation looks STUNNING. This is by far my favourite look in Sailor Moon Crystal so far. So many beautiful shots TwT The Prince Demand and Usagi scene was also really intense! I could feel the terror in her eyes >.<
10/10 for this episode. SO GREAT IM GONNA GO WATCH IT AGAIN NOW.
wheeeeeeeee~

Oh my God I can’t wait another couple of weeks for the next act ! It is getting really intense now ! Definitely better than the previous arc yay !

Loving the Puu and Chibi-Usa’s first meeting as well – they’re too cute x)

When Chibi-Usa sees Pluto and King Endymion talking, somehow I thought she is going to confront Pluto later on and then this happens : http://moonsticks.org/45-pluto-no-longer-a-planet/ xDDD but I guess it only happens in the Parallel MoonSticks Universe XD

Another good episode imo, we get to see some more of Naru, Umino, and that club pres Kotono from Rei’s school (who I thought was gonna be a one-time character only XD). As Venus’ Ayakashi Sister counterpart, Calaveras not using Dark Beaut as her attack still feels a bit off for me, though. Gonna take some time to get used to, although she’s technically toast now haha..

And yay finally it’s Puu’s time in 2 weeks ! I sure hope she’s talking to Usagi / Sailor Moon in the next ep preview and not something else, like, say, a cockroach LOL XDDD #ifyouknowwhatimean

Yes, another great episode this week with Act 18 Sailor Venus! I’m glad they decided against having Venus captured too ^^” Black Moon Arc of Crystal has been very solid so far :D I’m thoroughly enjoying it.

I like seeing “Rolling Heart Vibration” and “Smoking Bomber” and it was refreshing to see more of Naru and Umino. It was definitely a little different from the manga. Which was refreshing to see. I see so many things with the animation becoming more and more beautiful like the last. I can’t wait to see Sailor Pluto in the next Act!

It almost totally stuck to the manga this episode, and we finally got to see Rolling Heart Vibration (which I was really hoping would happen). Venus was already pretty lucky in terms of character development, so I didn’t mind her not getting her own special bit like Mercury did. As a Venus fan, I can say I loved this episode.

I thought the first arc was good. It was a start to test the fan waters. But this arc is really kicking butt. I love the side characters and stories in the episodes and its going to get better I think as it goes. this past episode had me tearing up haha.

Hands down I like this arc better too. Kinda miss the good ol’ Ayakashi Sisters though but this is a fresh approach as well (since I did not get the chance to read the manga except for the Stars season equivalent arc), albeit being a monster of the day, they do feel more dangerous, especially Berthier, ’cause I seem to recall she’s not as scary in the original. In fact, I kinda feel she somewhat reminds me of PallaPalla in some of her scenes in SMR, or maybe it should be the other way around instead ? XD

And you’re right about Chibi-Usa — she is much less noisy and annoying this time around hahaha (her more mature behaviour’s more like how she is in SuperS, despite this is the arc in which she shows up for the first time), but I also kinda miss her bickering with Usagi every chance she gets.. I remember their shoutings at each other used to be pretty loud and intense that my head hurts a bit XDD Her new seiyuu sounds really similar to the 90s though, which I like haha.. b(^^)d

My thoughts on Act 16:
-I absolutely loved this episode! In fact, I enjoyed both Act 15 Infiltration: Sailor Mars and “Abduction”. I seriously think the Black Moon Arc is starting off really strong! Much much better story writing than in the first arc of the Dark Kingdom :D

– I loved how Mercury had so much good character development time. We got to see some nice backstory too.

– I love the look of the villains so much :3 The Ayakashi Sisters looked amazing. I was a little sad that they kind of come and die (and don’t stick around like they did in the 90s) but they actually feel scary. And deadly. I’m just happy we’re able to see the sisters again but look so amazing in this new style :3

-Chibiusa is actually very cute. She’s not annoying like she was in the 90s anime and you really feel for her. You can tell she’s just a scared lonely helpless child, and it was great to see another side of Usagi too. With Mars being captured by the Black Moon, Usagi’s feeling of desperation and despair really showed through, with her then feeling awful for putting all the blame on Chibiusa. Usagi isn’t perfect. She’s human.

It was amazing. They are really fixing all that went wrong during the first arc. The art is sharper and more consistent, there’s more character development for the girls-look at the awesome job they did with Ami this episode. The swimming scene- Young (chibi) Ami was adorable! Her snow attack was gorgeous! Her connection and love regarding her friends is heartwarming and is what fuels her character forward. I’m loving this arc. They’re doing a nice job so far.

It was pretty darn great! Pacing was so much better and interesting! It kept me hooked the entire episode, even though I know what happens from reading the manga! I know it happens too in the manga, but the whole Mamo puppet scene was too adorable!! It was great! I’m glad they’re lightening up the expressions! The pool scene made me actually laugh for once! I hope they keep getting better!

Yup. Sailor Moon Crystal follows the manga storyline which goes straight to the Black Moon Arc with Chibiusa~ The Doom Tree Arc only appears in the 90s anime version, which was essentially a filler arc waiting for the manga to catch up.

They’re doing this arc too? hmmm I saw a screencap of Pluto. Sadly they still made her white. They tried to make her tan but it failed bad. So I WAS excited but not anymore. I do look forward to seeing a screncap of Wicked Lady though.

Oh the nostalgia… xD I hope we can see Ayakashi Sisters one more time, though I doubt they’ll get much character development this time around.

Can’t wait to see more of Setsuna hahaha for some reason she becomes a rather funny character in my head due to her behaviours in your comics XD I can never look at her as the serious individual anymore lol XDD but that just makes me love her more ! Still second to Hotaru, though ! ^^

Well, here’s hoping the series will have a lot of improvements although I heard that Usagi’s not getting new sequence for her Moon Crystal Power transformation or something along that line (correct me if I’m mistaken tho), which frankly kinda bums me out a little because I’ve always liked the transformation sequences in the original :(

Ah… I love the Ayakashi Sisters!! But yeah.. I have feeling they won’t have a big role like they did in the 90s anime :( They weren’t in the Sailor Moon Musicals either which is a shame.. still be exciting to see them in a new style :D

lol..poor pluto. XDDD I ruined her cool serious image XD

I hope she does get a new sequence.. I’d be pretty disappointed if it was kept the same too >.< At least.. a different soundtrack? I kind of doubt it since it wasn't in the Sailor Moon Crystal OST...

Yeah, and I like the Saphir and Petz moments in the original, too. But still looking forward to seeing them as well haha..

Or maybe same soundtrack, different sequence ? lol I’m still hoping that she gets new animation, because in the 90s that’s kinda how I determined that Sailor Moon was getting stronger each season hahaha

Guess we’ll find out soon enough ^^” We already know the character intros will be the same… just swapped out the compact brooch for a new one XD Her outfit from classic to R doesn’t seem to change too much so I’m actually not expecting a new henshin